INCUNABULUM

[Perry Lassiter]

OTHOH Doug Adams was great. Re-read most of the trilogy, and at one point had the game. Got stuck when I couldn't come up with the password for the screening door.

[LukeJavan8]

OHTHO ???

[Slava]

OHTHO ???

Perhaps OTOH, on the other hand?

[Perry Lassiter]

Yup. Brain burped!

[misterdoe]

Luke, you're verging dangerously near to invoking the sparkling. I beg you not to do this.

I was referring to the "Twilight" saga.

Auugh! He said it! Auugh!

I could do without all the vampires, myself. Though the story behind what inspired Bram Stoker to create his Dracula can be interesting for a history buff. One major element, but not the only one: Vlad IV "the Impaler," a *ahem* bloodthirsty Romanian warlord. Specifically, a Transylvanian warlord. Nicknamed Dracula, or "little dragon," after his father Vlad III Dracul.

[gailr]

Luke, you're verging dangerously near to invoking the sparkling. I beg you not to do this.

I was referring to the "Twilight" saga.

Auugh! He said it! Auugh!

I know.
And after I begged him so politely to *not*. Well, I see how it is around here these days...

Luke: The meyerpires 'sparkle' which [again, imho] doesn't generate fear so much as snorting coffee out one's nose. I also omitted mentioning the Pedophilia!Daddy Issues! lietmotifs in my 30-second critique/rant above. Carl Sagan wrote, "In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to make sense." Internal consistency is wholly lacking in this series, which sets it a long ways apart from the "classics" of the vampire genre. Also, the shocking blue eyes are a feature in Underworld. The sparkling's eyes are red (eeeeevil) or gold (angelic marble cupcake adonis good guys).

Also also, regarding literary trilogies: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide is marketed as a five-volumn trilogy. Dirk Gently is sometimes referred to as a two-volume trilogy. I don't mind when a talented writer puts an unexpected twist on a prosaic word. I mind it a great deal when I get the impression the writer doesn't understand the meaning of the words s/he uses.

[LukeJavan8]

Gotcha! ! !Thanks.

[LukeJavan8]

And Sorry I mentioned the "unmentionable".

[gailr]

^ Clearly, it's not.

Go ahead and read 'em if you like; it's a fascinating look into a very...odd...mind. I just wanted to 'warn' you!

[LukeJavan8]

No, I'm appreciative, really.
I am not into that series, at all. It's for the
younger crowd, like Star Wars was for me at that age.

[Philip Hudson]

Luke: You must be a young sprout. I was already in my dotage when Star Wars came along.

[Slava]

Luke: You must be a young sprout. I was already in my dotage when Star Wars came along.

Wow, I'd sure like to hear your definition of dotage. Star Wars came along some 36 years ago. I know you are a Senior Lexiterian, but I did not know we had any centenarians or even nearly such in our midst.

[Philip Hudson]

Dotage sets in early for some of us.

[MTC]

Those youthful souls born since the advent of the "Dot.Coms" are said to be in their "dotage." A dot means a lot.

[LukeJavan8]

I wonder about my 'dotage' - FDR was president
(albeit only for six days) when I was born.
Senior Lexi: I blab a lot. {Actually I passed that
a long time ago too, I'm a Grand Pan, with out
the pipeflute}